Formatting CDs
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I'matightbastard
Joined: Jul 2001
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From: Texas
Formatting CDs
XP Home
I used to copy stuff out to the CD by right clicking + formatting, copying and then right clicking + Make Usable-ing.
The trouble is that it's all different now
and formatting doesn't seem to be an option, the context menu just says "Copy these [sic] files over"
I hate it when things run differently.
Is this something to do with DLA and if so what's DLA?
Any chance I can get it back like it was?
btw, two exams down and three more to go with my MCSD. Bloody complicated stuff though .NET
I used to copy stuff out to the CD by right clicking + formatting, copying and then right clicking + Make Usable-ing.
The trouble is that it's all different now
and formatting doesn't seem to be an option, the context menu just says "Copy these [sic] files over"I hate it when things run differently.
Is this something to do with DLA and if so what's DLA?
Any chance I can get it back like it was?
btw, two exams down and three more to go with my MCSD. Bloody complicated stuff though .NET
Joined: Nov 1999
Posts: 428
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From: London
DLA = Drive Letter Access
Software that allows you to drag and drop files to a CD one at a time like you would with a hard drive. Normally in XP when you drag files to a CD you only "apparently" write them to disk immediately. The files actually hang around waiting to be written to disk together. DLA allows you to actually write them to disk immediately - one by one - using a disk format called UDF which I personally try to avoid because not all PCs are set up to read it.
I found some info that explains a lot here....
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php
Software that allows you to drag and drop files to a CD one at a time like you would with a hard drive. Normally in XP when you drag files to a CD you only "apparently" write them to disk immediately. The files actually hang around waiting to be written to disk together. DLA allows you to actually write them to disk immediately - one by one - using a disk format called UDF which I personally try to avoid because not all PCs are set up to read it.
I found some info that explains a lot here....
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php
